solitary confinement

Many people today contest the use of solitary confinement in the US as it is currently being practiced. i agree with the way that it is practiced today because i believe those who are closest to the situation, the prison officials, are most knowledgeable on the individuals in prison and because of this, they should be in complete control of the solitary confinement system. We should not put laws in place because we do not know all the details of the situation like those close to the prison do.
If i had to put a max amount of time that the prisoners could spend on solitary confinement however i would say about 5 years because that seems like a sufficient amount of time for any individual to be protected from others or to protect others from him. Building on this, i would also recommend that there be no cap on how many times that a prisoner could be put in solitary because many prisoners, i would imagine, go right back to the ways they did thing outside of solitary when they get out of it.
As of now, prisoners are not able to appeal the decisions of these prison officials and i would not give prisoners the ability to challenge or appeal their solitary confinement because for one, the prison officials would have to have proof for all of these cases and in many cases that would be extremely difficult to obtain and would lead to many dangerous prisoners out and about in the prison circulation.

Gangs

i dont think gangs can ever and will ever stop. therefore, i think we should spend the resources and money on people that would actuallty appreciate it. we could put the money into places where if the members of the community want to get help they can such as libraries and schools. give the people who want to better themselves the tools to. gangs are a problem in rochester today but if the people in the gangs arent going to stop then theres nothing we can do. we can only encourage people to stay away from the gang lifestyle but they already dont listen anyway so there would be no point in putting resources in a place that there is no benefit from putting those resources into. instead of putting money and manpower into combatting gangs, we should put that into protecting the ones they hurt because they will always be around and it would just be a waste of time to fight that.